Fascist Italy by Herbert Vivian. 1936, first edition.

Fascist Italy by Herbert Vivian.

Publisher: Melrose, 1936, first edition. Rough reading copy.

Hardback with no jacket, binding firm, boards are very worn, marked, rubbed, frayed and chipped, part of jacket stuck to spine, and inside front and back covers. no inscriptions, label has been removed from ffep and caused a small hole, pages are grubby and foxed. 288 pages, illustrated.

Herbert Vivian (3 April 1865 - 18 April 1940) was an English journalist, author and newspaper owner. Before the First World War he was friends with Winston Churchill and was the first journalist to interview him. Vivian lost as Liberal candidate for Deptford in 1906. As an extreme monarchist throughout his life, he became in the 1920s a supporter of fascism. Vivian's writings were noted in his lifetime and after; he is listed in the 1926 edition of Who's Who in Literature, and the 1967 New Century Handbook of English Literature. His last book, Fascist Italy (1936) was an apologia for Benito Mussolini, whom Vivian depicted as saving Italy from a Communist revolution.

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